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Immigration Jails
How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps?
Pro tip, flag-waver: Your July Fourth “freedom” narrative is a bald-faced lie.
Racist Border Patrol Facebook Group Is Under Investigation
The group is filled with racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant and misogynistic content about migrants and asylum seekers.
Reporting a Rape in Immigration Jail: One Asylum Seeker’s Fight for Justice
After being raped, Rene Lopez remains incarcerated at the Yuba County Jail.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes Horrific Conditions at Migrant Jails
The revelations come one day after ProPublica exposed a dehumanizing Facebook group made up of border patrol agents.
Families Torn Apart by the US’s Deadly Immigration Policy
Six migrant children have died in U.S. detention since Trump took office. Six families will never be reunited.
20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now
While Congress stalls, you can take other kinds of actions to help immigrants in transition, in detention and in crisis.
Japanese-American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids
Five Japanese-American elders engaged in civil disobedience Saturday outside the Fort Sill Army post in Oklahoma.
Chaos, Illness and Danger Pervade Migrant Child Jail in Texas
Lawyers who visited the facility said children are unable to shower or change into clean clothes for weeks on end.
They Are Concentration Camps — and They Are Also Prisons
Asylum seekers have been ensnared by the prison-industrial complex, a system of death and destruction.
DHS Watchdog Confirms Horrific Conditions at Immigrant Jails
At least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump.